Posted on 05/21/2012 7:56:50 AM PDT by marshmallow
ESPN's Grantland website jumped on the bash Manny Pacquiao bandwagon on Thursday by giving a platform to a homosexual activist, who predictably trashed the Catholic Church as she took the Filipino boxing sensation to task for defending traditional marriage.
Writer Laurel Fantauzzo ripped the "the Church's cruel, untrue dictates about me," and promised if he didn't "evolve" like President Obama, "I'll simply have to sigh wearily and turn away from you, the way I've turned away from all of the idiotic bigots I've come across in my life, carrying a cross or a heavy book or a Constitution."
In her post, "An Open Letter to Manny Pacquiao From a Gay Filipina American," Fantauzzo wasted little time before targeting the traditional Christian teaching against homosexual acts. Even as she dropped many references to the strong Catholic culture in the Philippines, she all but admitted that the Church was her enemy because of what it taught:
...I know, though, that you [Pacquiao] also don't want me to be married. I know you think this is a perfectly reasonable, justified stand to take against me. You're like a lot of Filipinos: Catholic. Powerfully, post-colonially Catholic.....
I've stood in front of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo Church that you pray to after each fight...I've felt the power and the grace of it. I get it....When you grow up Filipina — or Italiapina, as I did — your parents give you Catholicism as a kind of heavy gift. A centuries-old guide for every life transition a human can go through. Birth, death, the burden of any wrongdoing, and, yes, marriage. But as I grew older and realized the dreaded word applied to me — lesbian — I realized the Church was what I'd have to feint and duck; the Church's cruel, untrue dictates about me....
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
If Mr. Simmons wants to show solidarity with the queers; maybe he could take up a part-time position with J. C. Penney’s...they could sure use the help.
Maybe he lent his “expertise” to their (JCP’s) latest ad campaign. We see how that worked out for them ;)
espn has lost vision of what it is supposed to be about. sports.
I sure won’t lose any sleep if Laurel turns away from me!
I “carry” the constitution, a heavy book and a cross; go ahead and turn away from me. See how much I am harmed by your actions. Others like me will turn away from you and your employer. Let’s see how that works out for you.
By the way, you freaking hypocrite, you wouldn’t like it if others told you how to live and what to say. But you are doing that to others with impunity.
Thanks marshmallow.
Salve
The Holy Church, who is not your enemy, but a path to Lord, that Church, that allows you to meet with The Lord, that Church you call in such disrespectful way, is only one and one only. And is Mystical.
I see, anger, hatred coming from person, who like raging lion wants to have his way, no!!! You will not have your way, for there is only One Way, One Trough, One Road, Real one. You are not in positions to challenge written laws giving to humanity long before you existed, neither you should act in matter of absolute admiration of sin.
Church doesn’t hate homosexuals or others, it hates the sin tha is committed against God is in full knowledge of the Soul.
You are committing grave sin, as 1 Against Eternal Father, Son and Holy Spirit, attacking Church, you are attacking Mystical Body of Christ, that is you, slopping The Lord in your pride and arrogance against Holy Trinity. I pray for your soul, but wake up, for time is short.
Merci
“Do you think that the Catholic Church is still doing that?”
Benedict XVI has banned them, and the American hierarchy may go along with it because it cost them millions by letting them in.
Let's HEAR IT for the Panzer Pope!!
The American hierarchy took vows of obedience. Let's see if they obey their Pontiff.
googling found this:
Laurel Fantauzzo currently lives in Quezon City, Philippines. She feels equally at home in Brooklyn, NY and Iowa City, IA. Her Tagalog is slowly improving.
she lives in Quezon City, but doesn't speak Tagalog?
Maybe because she was born and raised in Ventura County California.
link.
Laurel Fantauzzo was raised in Ventura County, California and graduated from La Reina, a private Catholic high school for girls. In addition to writing fiction, she has written for a sketch comedy troupe, worked as a freelance journalist in New York City and the Philippines, and served as assistant editor for Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. She worked for two years as a restaurant reviewer for New York Magazine online, and has contributed to AfterEllen and Go Magazine, among other publications. She also founded the popular We Are Not the Enemy photo blog in response to California’s Proposition 8. Currently she is at work on a young adult novel and a collection of comedic essays. Laurel attended the University of California, Santa Cruz and Sarah Lawrence College for her undergraduate work. She was awarded an Iowa Arts Fellowship in 2010 and will pursue an MFA in nonfiction at the University of Iowa.
Translation: She's Californian, with an Italian name who probably has a Filipina ancestor and is promoting hate speech because she is a professional lesbian.
can any of you guys put a comment on newsbusters and tell them she was brought up in California and can’t even speak Tagalog?
It hasn’t hit the Philippine papers yet, but I agree with Michelle Malkin: This outcry against Pacquiao is so fast and so furious it looks like it was coordinated and was probably already planned before Pacquiao came to the US.
I’m not sure if it is to diss the Philippines for many folks here not wanting to legalize abortion in the up coming RH Bill (which Pacquiao is backing the bishops, not the president here), or if it is to try to “educate” Pacquiao what will happen if he runs for president in the future and crosses his orders from the US and the NWO types.
(Pacquiao is a Senator and I suspect if he runs later for president, he will win).
the writer may be eligible for dual citizenship if her mother is a filipina, so I guess you could call her a Filipina, but if she can’t even speak the language, and was brought up in California, then I say she knows little or nothing about the Philippines.
Perhaps it’s time ESPN had some conservative competition.
SZonian to Manny...keep your faith brother, no matter what the sodomists “preach” from their bully pulpits.
//signed//
a Gracer
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